Approaching the limits of transparency and conductivity in graphitic materials through lithium intercalation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bao, Wenzhong ^a,b   Wan, Jiayu ^b   Han, Xiaogang ^b   Cai, Xinghan ^a   Zhu, Hongli ^b   Kim, Dohun ^a   Ma, Dakang ^b,c   Xu, Yunlu ^b,c   Munday, Jeremy N ^b,c   Drew, H Dennis ^a   Fuhrer, Michael S ^a,d   Hu, Liangbing ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; LITHIUM;

CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LITHIUM; TRANSMITTANCE;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; LIGHT; LITHIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84903753206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5224     Document Type: Article

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